Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Hori
Hirofumi Hori has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240111945Abstract: An experiment support apparatus includes: one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that include an instruction; and one or more processors that execute the instruction. The instruction is configured to cause the one or more processors to execute an operation, the operation includes: causing a display device to display a condition table TB that indicates an experiment condition for measurement, in response to an input of the experiment condition; and causing the display device to display at least one of a measurement result based on measurement data, or an analysis result of the measurement data, in a cell of the condition table TB, in response to an input of the measurement data, the measurement data being obtained using a measurement apparatus under the experiment condition corresponding to the cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Evident CorporationInventors: Yosuke TANI, Hirofumi HORI, Takahiro FURUKAWA, Tsukasa NITTONO, Takayuki KOMIYA
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Patent number: 11935012Abstract: A construct information management system and method for enabling handling of different types of data is provided. A construct information management system 1 for managing information related to a construct includes: a data collection unit 11 configured to collect different types of source data related to different types of constructs from prescribed data sources 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and retain the collected source data; and a data management unit 12 configured to map the collected source data onto a prescribed spatiotemporal model, acquire prescribed data associated with input data on the basis of at least mapping information on the prescribed spatiotemporal model, and process and output the acquired prescribed data.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kouichi Tanimoto, Satoru Hori, Hirofumi Inomata
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Patent number: 11867496Abstract: A measurement system includes: an optical measurement instrument that measures a surface of a specimen; and a control apparatus that controls the measurement instrument. The control apparatus includes: one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that include an instruction; and one or more processors that execute the instruction. The instruction is configured to cause the one or more processors to execute an operation. The operation includes: causing the measurement instrument to repetitively measure the surface of the specimen without changing the setting; and evaluating appropriateness of the setting for measuring surface texture of the specimen, based on comparison between a measurement value of the surface texture of the specimen calculated from a measurement data item output from the measurement instrument, and a degree of variation in measurement by the measurement instrument calculated from a plurality of measurement data items output from the measurement instrument.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Evident CorporationInventors: Yosuke Tani, Hirofumi Hori, Takahiro Furukawa, Tsukasa Nittono, Takayuki Komiya
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Publication number: 20220107169Abstract: A measurement system includes: an optical measurement instrument that measures a surface of a specimen; and a control apparatus that controls the measurement instrument. The control apparatus includes: one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that include an instruction; and one or more processors that execute the instruction. The instruction is configured to cause the one or more processors to execute an operation. The operation includes: causing the measurement instrument to repetitively measure the surface of the specimen without changing the setting; and evaluating appropriateness of the setting for measuring surface texture of the specimen, based on comparison between a measurement value of the surface texture of the specimen calculated from a measurement data item output from the measurement instrument, and a degree of variation in measurement by the measurement instrument calculated from a plurality of measurement data items output from the measurement instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke TANI, Hirofumi HORI, Takahiro FURUKAWA, Tsukasa NITTONO, Takayuki KOMIYA
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Publication number: 20220108064Abstract: An experiment support apparatus includes: one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that include an instruction; and one or more processors that execute the instruction. The instruction is configured to cause the one or more processors to execute an operation, the operation includes: causing a display device to display a condition table TB that indicates an experiment condition for measurement, in response to an input of the experiment condition; and causing the display device to display at least one of a measurement result based on measurement data, or an analysis result of the measurement data, in a cell of the condition table TB, in response to an input of the measurement data, the measurement data being obtained using a measurement apparatus under the experiment condition corresponding to the cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke TANI, Hirofumi HORI, Takahiro FURUKAWA, Tsukasa NITTONO, Takayuki KOMIYA
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Patent number: 9494191Abstract: When an attachment circular-cylinder section coupled to one axial line direction end portion of a mainbody circular-cylinder section of a grommet is inserted into an opening portion in an upper frame, engagement claws formed at an outer periphery of the attachment circular-cylinder section engage with a peripheral edge portion of the opening portion by elastically deforming, enabling the grommet to be attached to the upper frame. When a seatback spring is passed through the grommet, a retaining section formed at an inner peripheral portion of a boundary between the mainbody circular-cylinder section and the attachment circular-cylinder section retains the seatback spring.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignees: NIFCO INC., TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke Okamoto, Hirofumi Hori, Masato Arashi, Naoya Okada
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Publication number: 20160169279Abstract: When an attachment circular-cylinder section coupled to one axial line direction end portion of a mainbody circular-cylinder section of a grommet is inserted into an opening portion in an upper frame, engagement claws formed at an outer periphery of the attachment circular-cylinder section engage with a peripheral edge portion of the opening portion by elastically deforming, enabling the grommet to be attached to the upper frame. When a seatback spring is passed through the grommet, a retaining section formed at an inner peripheral portion of a boundary between the mainbody circular-cylinder section and the attachment circular-cylinder section retains the seatback spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Daisuke OKAMOTO, Hirofumi HORI, Masato ARASHI, Naoya OKADA
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Patent number: 9126789Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that can facilitate a replacement of a sheet feeding portion. When a detecting portion detects that a sheet feeding cassette is mounted, a controller controls a driving portion in such a manner as to lift a sheet supporting plate for the mounted sheet feeding cassette. When the detecting portion detects that a sheet feeding cassette is mounted, the controller controls a driving portion in such a manner as not to lift a sheet supporting plate for the mounted sheet feeding cassette in the case where it is determined that a sheet feeding cassette nearest a feeding roller of the mounted sheet feeding cassette is drawn or detached.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Hori, Ryuji Hamasaki, Shunsuke Okazaki
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Patent number: 8999900Abstract: The present invention provide a two-component anti-seizure agent for hot metal working process comprising the first aqueous solution and the second aqueous solution, wherein the first aqueous solution contains 10˜30 mass % of sodium silicate equivalent to anhydride to 100 mass % of total mass of the first aqueous solution, and the second aqueous solution contains at least one kind selected from a group consisting of: an organic acid and water-soluble amine salts thereof, an inorganic acid and water-soluble amine salts thereof, a water-soluble amine, a water-soluble alcohol, and a water-soluble metal chloride. When the two-component anti-seizure agent is applied onto disk-roll type guide shoes, it can be provided and maintained on the circumferential surface of the disk-roll type guide shoes without washed away by rolls' cooling water. Thereby, the anti-seizure agent does not adhere to rolls and the rolls and a pipe material do not cause slippage each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Sumio Iida, Masami Imamura, Yuuji Tanaka, Kazuhiro Shimoda, Hirofumi Hori, Akira Motoki, Shizuo Mori
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Publication number: 20150021847Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that can facilitate a replacement of a sheet feeding portion. When a detecting portion detects that a sheet feeding cassette is mounted, a controller controls a driving portion in such a manner as to lift a sheet supporting plate for the mounted sheet feeding cassette. When the detecting portion detects that a sheet feeding cassette is mounted, the controller controls a driving portion in such a manner as not to lift a sheet supporting plate for the mounted sheet feeding cassette in the case where it is determined that a sheet feeding cassette nearest a feeding roller of the mounted sheet feeding cassette is drawn or detached.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Hirofumi Hori, Ryuji Hamasaki, Shunsuke Okazaki
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Patent number: 8455408Abstract: A method of coating uses an anti-seizure agent for hot steel working that exhibits excellent wettability and surface film-adherability. The agent comprises: an inorganic component (first component); sodium hydroxide (second component); water-soluble resins and/or water-soluble surfactants (third component); and water. With the sum of the first component, the second component, and the third component as 100 mass %, the anti-seizure agent contains: 96.5 mass % or more and 99.98 mass % or less of the first component; 0.01 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less of the second component; and 0.01 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less of the third component, and the inorganic component is one or more selected from a group consisting of Al2O3, SiO2, CaO, B2O3, K2O, and Na2O. A coating layer formed solidly adheres to the steel and does not come off in both cold and hot working.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Hori, Tetsuya Nakanishi, Teruo Onozawa, Yoshimi Imoto
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Publication number: 20120304722Abstract: A method of coating uses an anti-seizure agent for hot steel working that exhibits excellent wettability and surface film-adherability. The agent comprises: an inorganic component (first component); sodium hydroxide (second component); water-soluble resins and/or water-soluble surfactants (third component); and water. With the sum of the first component, the second component, and the third component as 100 mass %, the anti-seizure agent contains: 96.5 mass % or more and 99.98 mass % or less of the first component; 0.01 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less of the second component; and 0.01 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less of the third component, and the inorganic component is one or more selected from a group consisting of Al2O3, SiO2, CaO, B2O3, K2O, and Na2O. A coating layer formed solidly adheres to the steel and does not come off in both cold and hot working.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Hori, Tetsuya Nakanishi, Teruo Onozawa, Yoshimi Imoto
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Patent number: 8302956Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus, in which a drive motor rotates a pickup roller, and a drive transmission portion provided between the drive motor and the pickup roller transmits a drive from the drive motor to the pickup roller. During sheet feeding, one of the drive motor and the drive transmission portion causes the pickup roller to perform an intermittent drive of iterating the drive and a stop, so that a sheet is gradually deflected between the pickup roller and separation claws.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Matsushima, Yasuhiro Uchida, Hirofumi Hori, Hitomi Suzuki
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Patent number: 8263534Abstract: An anti-seizure agent for hot steel working that exhibits excellent wettability and surface film-adherability comprises: an inorganic component (first component); sodium hydroxide (second component); water-soluble resins and/or water-soluble surfactants (third component); and water. With the mass of the sum of the first component, the second component, and the third component as 100 mass %, the anti-seizure agent contains: 96.5 mass % or more and 99.98 mass % or less of the first component; 0.01 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less of the second component; and 0.01 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less of the third component, and the inorganic component is one or more selected from a group consisting of Al2O3, SiO2, CaO, B2O3, K2O, and Na2O. A coating layer formed after application solidly adheres to the steel and does not come off in the environment of both cold and hot working.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Hori, Tetsuya Nakanishi, Teruo Onozawa, Yoshimi Imoto
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Patent number: 7998582Abstract: The present invention relates to a particulate mixed metal hydroxide that includes nickel, cobalt and aluminium. The powder particles have a core of nickel/cobalt hydroxide, and a surface that is coated with amorphous aluminium hydroxide. A process for the continuous preparation of such mixed metal hydroxides is also described. The process includes precipitating aluminium hydroxide in the presence of a nickel/cobalt mixed hydroxide in a tube reactor. The mixed metal hydroxides of the present invention may be used to prepare active materials for positive electrodes of a secondary battery.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Toda Kogyo Europe GmbHInventors: Sven Albrecht, Michael Kruft, Armin Olbrich, Stefan Malcus, Wolfgang Wiezoreck, Trevor McLeod, Shuja Siddiqui, Rob Rops, Hirofumi Hori
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Publication number: 20110024970Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus including: a separation claw for restraining both end portions of leading edges of sheets in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet feeding direction, the sheets having reached a sheet feeding position, and separating, one by one, the sheets fed by a pickup roller; and a photosensor detecting that the separation claw has reached a separation position for separating the sheets when a sheet stacking board is raised to detect that the sheets have reached the sheet feeding position, in which the separation claw, which is movable in an up-and-down direction, is moved to the separation position, the photosensor detects that the sheets supported by the sheet stacking board have reached the sheet feeding position of being feedable by the pickup roller, by rise of the sheet stacking board.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Uchida, Hirofumi Hori, Akira Matsushima, Hitomi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20110024969Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus, in which a drive motor rotates a pickup roller, and a drive transmission portion provided between the drive motor and the pickup roller transmits a drive from the drive motor to the pickup roller. During sheet feeding, one of the drive motor and the drive transmission portion causes the pickup roller to perform an intermittent drive of iterating the drive and a stop, so that a sheet is gradually deflected between the pickup roller and separation claws.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Matsushima, Yasuhiro Uchida, Hirofumi Hori, Hitomi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20100059707Abstract: The present invention relates to a particulate mixed metal hydroxide that includes nickel, cobalt and aluminium. The powder particles have a core of nickel/cobalt hydroxide, and a surface that is coated with amorphous aluminium hydroxide. A process for the continuous preparation of such mixed metal hydroxides is also described. The process includes precipitating aluminium hydroxide in the presence of a nickel/cobalt mixed hydroxide in a tube reactor. The mixed metal hydroxides of the present invention may be used to prepare active materials for positive electrodes of a secondary battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: TODA KOGYO EUROPE GMBHInventors: Sven Albrecht, Michael Kruft, Armin Olbrich, Stefan Malcus, Wolfgang Wiezoreck, Trevor Mcleod, Shuja Siddiqui, Rob Rops, Hirofumi Hori
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Publication number: 20090297717Abstract: An anti-seizure agent for hot steel working that exhibits excellent wettability and surface film-adherability comprises: an inorganic component (first component); sodium hydroxide (second component); water-soluble resins and/or water-soluble surfactants (third component); and water. With the mass of the sum of the first component, the second component, and the third component as 100 mass %, the anti-seizure agent contains: 96.5 mass % or more and 99.98 mass % or less of the first component; 0.01 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less of the second component; and 0.01 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less of the third component, and the inorganic component is one or more selected from a group consisting of Al2O3, SiO2, CaO, B2O3, K2O, and Na2O. A coating layer formed after application solidly adheres to the steel and does not come off in the environment of both cold and hot working.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2006Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Hirofumi Hori, Tetsuya Nakanishi, Teruo Onozawa, Yoshimi Imoto
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Patent number: 7622190Abstract: The present invention relates to a particulate mixed metal hydroxide that includes nickel, cobalt and aluminium. The powder particles have a core of nickel/cobalt hydroxide, and a surface that is coated with amorphous aluminium hydroxide. A process for the continuous preparation of such mixed metal hydroxides is also described. The process includes precipitating aluminium hydroxide in the presence of a nickel/cobalt mixed hydroxide in a tube reactor. The mixed metal hydroxides of the present invention may be used to prepare active materials for positive electrodes of a secondary battery.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2005Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Toda Kogyo Europe GmbHInventors: Sven Albrecht, Michael Kruft, Armin Olbrich, Stefan Malcus, Wolfgang Wiezoreck, Trevor McLeod, Shuja Siddiqui, Rob Rops, Hirofumi Hori